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My Uncle Oswald.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1979. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.221. Publisher's dark blue cloth in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Dave Senior, priced at £5.50. Neat ink ownership else a lovely fine copy. Slightly risque, adult romp from the regular 'Playboy' contributor. Roald Dahl received the World..... More
Mr. Tootleoo One and Two.
London, The Nonesuch Press 1932. FIRST THUS: Quarto. Unpaginated. Publisher's pale blue boards with red fish device. Original scarlet end papers. Contains 40 delightfully comic monochrome illustrations. Exterior is still remarkably bright. Some scattered foxing to first and last leaves, otherwise a very good copy indeed. This is a cheaper..... More
The Scorch Trials.
London: Chicken House, 2010. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.361; [1]. One of 3000 copies SIGNED by the author. Hardback in pink dust-jacket, with black paper-covered slipcase. In the original shrink-wrap. Fine/as-new. The second book in the 'Maze Runner' series. More
The Promise.
London: Walker Books, 2013. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 26cm), pp.40. With colour illustrations to every page by Carlin. SIGNED by the artist in black ink to half-title. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, and pavement illustrated endpapers. With the contrasting illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
This Year: Next Year.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small Quarto, unpaginated. SIGNED by both artist and author in black ink to verso of front free endpaper; hand-numbered 100 of 100 copies. Brightly illustrated throughout with lithographs by Jones. In publisher's colour-illustrated cloth boards, with matching jacket and illustrated endpapers. Some..... More
Told Again: Traditional Tales Told by Walter de la Mare.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 320. With six colour plates, and numerous in-text line drawings, by Watson. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. A nice clean copy, with some offsetting to fly-leaf only. Light toning to spine, and..... More
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., no date [1932]. [Children's Illustrated] ILLUSTRATED ABRIDGED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.176. With 24 colour plates by Jackson, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green quarter cloth with black titles to spine and colour-illustrated paper-covered boards. Small pink ink ownership to front pastedown. Heavy spotting..... More
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The Arabian Nights. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. [Ali Baba, Sinbad, Aladdin, etc.]
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, no date [1924]. [Illustrated] First Detmold illustrated edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.240. Twelve tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards. Publisher's white cloth pictorially blocked and lettered in gilt. Contents clean, some spotting to edges and endpapers, contemporary ink note (1926) to flyleaf, cloth rather..... More
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. Pictured by R. Caldecott.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., c.1890. AN ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOK. Slim oversized octavo, pp.30. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards, depicting two men carrying a dead dog upon a stretcher, flanked by mournful black hounds. Front and rear pastedown illustrated with full colour plates. A lovely copy of a...... More
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Sindbad [Sinbad] the Sailor, & Other Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1914]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, trade issue. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[2] 222 [2]. With 23 stunning colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each mounted with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's brown cloth, extensively decorated in green and gilt to spine and..... More
Harry and Lucy Concluded; being the Last Part of Early Lessons.
London: Printed for R. Hunter [etc.], 1827. [Children's Literature] SECOND EDITION, corrected. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.iii-xviii; 287 [1]; pp.[4] 342; pp.[4] 319 [1]; pp.[4] 350. Contemporary brown quarter morocco (possibly an early publisher's binding), with gilt titles to spines, and marbled paper over boards. Lacking..... More
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Cinderella [together with] The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1920. [Children's] FIRST EDITIONS THUS. 2 volumes, large octavos (26 x 20cm). Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-tone illustrations. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines lettered in black, illustrated green endpapers to first volume, pictorial dust-wrappers..... More
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Cinderella [together with] The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919, 1920. [Children's] FIRST EDITIONS THUS. 2 volumes, large octavos (26 x 20cm). Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-tone illustrations. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines lettered in black, illustrated green endpapers to first volume. A very..... More
Cinderella. Together with The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919 and 1920. FIRST EDITIONS thus. 2 volumes, large octavos. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines, in red and grey illustrated dust-wrappers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-toned illustrations. Owner name to 'Cinderella', some edge spotting to..... More
The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Children's illustrated classic] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.110; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Tipped-in colour plate to first chapter; illustrated throughout with Rackham's silhouettes. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth spine; titles and decoration in black and pink, illustrated green endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket..... More
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). Some minor..... More
The Quiet Woman and the Noisy Dog.
London: Andersen Press, 2009. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (24 x 28cm), pp.[26] With naive colour illustrations by Busby to every page. Publisher's matt colour-illustrated paper over boards, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10.99 (no jacket issued). A fine, as-new copy. More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape and Queen Anne Press, 2014. [Children's illustrated] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, one of just 50 sets, accompanied by two prints, measuring 297 x 210mm, SIGNED and numbered by John Burningham. Three volumes plus portfolio, housed in a grey cloth slipcase (34 x 24 x 6cm), pp.48; pp.48; pp.48..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964-5. [Children's classic] 3 volumes, octavos (24 x 17cm). ALL FIRST IMPRESSIONS. Complete. Pp.48, 48, 48. Publisher's white hardcovers in glossy pictorial dustwrappers, priced at 10/6 (first volume clipped). A very good, used set, with a discreet ink name to third volume endpaper, jackets with a few..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[24]. With uncredited colour illustrations to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated hard covers. Yellow pastedowns. A brown and green gift inscription to title page, dated 1969. Well-handled, with some light rubbing and bumping to covers. Spine sunned. Very..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. [Children's classic] Single volume hardback reprint, originally published in three volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.128. Illustrated by John Burningham. Gilt-titled orange cloth with green endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions, jacket clipped else a bright, near fine copy. Many copies of the one volume hardback appear..... More
A Day in a Child's Life.
London: George Routledge, n.d. [1881]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. 29. With colour illustrations by Kate Greenaway to every page. In publisher's quarter green cloth with green and yellow paper-covered boards. Titles to upper board and green end-papers. Black ink inscription to flyleaf dated 1882. Very light spotting. Edges quite heavily..... More
Henny Penny.
London: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2006. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Windham to every page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, priced at £10.99. A fine, as-new copy. More
Grimble.
London: Collins, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 44. With frequent in-text illustrations by Francis. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by Francis. Internally fine. Jacket price-clipped and sunned to spine with some small closed tears. Very good..... More
Dragon Rider.
Frome: The Chicken House, 2004. [Children's Fantasy] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.530. With occasional in-text illustrations by Howard. Publisher's blue soft covers, and proof dust-jacket illustrated by Ian Butterworth, priced at £12.99. Some light handling. Near fine. Originally published in German in 1997, and basis for the 2020..... More